Spring 1999

John Smolens’s “In the Desert” Richard O’Mara’s “The Jesuit Republic of South America” David Kirby’s “What is a Book?” Jeffrey Meyers’s “The Hemingways: An American Tragedy” Stories by John Smolens, Richard O’Mara, David Kirby, and Jeffrey Meyers Poetry by Martha Ostheimer, Nicole Pekarske, Mary Oliver, and Paul Breslin
Spring 1999

Volume 75, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1999 cover
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Table of contents

Criticism 
Poetry 
 

Contributor Profiles

David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. He is author or co-author of more than twenty books, most recently a collection of poetry, The Ha-Ha (LSU, 2003), and a volume of essays, What Is a Book? (Georgia, 2002). His work appears frequently in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and was recently awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

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